Espírito Santo and probably also adjacent Minas Gerais, in eastern Brazil.
 
Population
Estimated population is 50 - 249 (2010) and decreasing.
Status CR
Habitat destruction and degradation through ongoing deforestation is the main threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Habits
Singly and in groups of 1 - 10 birds, and associating with mixed-species flocks.
Voice
A complex series of thin warbles, and double-whistle calls.
Cherry-throated Tanager (Nemosia rourei) [XC31887]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Mata dos Caet\u00e9s, Vargem Alta, Esp\u00edrito Santo, Brazil (call, sons and calls ??)
Cherry-throated Tanager (Nemosia rourei) [XC179816]
by Monyzi Pezzin from Reserva Biol\u00f3gica Augusto Ruschi, Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Type locality was for long regarded as Muriaé, in south-eastern Minas Gerais, but this now questioned, and hypothesized that type specimen is, in fact, from Macaé, in southern Rio de Janeiro. Molecular-genetic data indicate that present genus and Sericossypha are probably sister-taxa. Although this species has for long been placed in present genus, it is vocally closer to Lamprospiza.